Apple menu instead of Dock?

[Richard Anderson]

The Apple menu on Classical macs could be used for listing  the files  
commonly used, but apparently no longer. On the other hand the Dock  
isn't very good for this.

Icons on the desktop could be used but they don't line up on the left  
hand, like Windows one do. Is there any way of either using the Apple  
menu for files, or of lining up icons on the left side of the Desktop  
(or even better to view them as Lists?


Dick Anderson